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THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
of disease or injury or were killed by city inspectors after rejec¬ 
tion in the stock-yards, and the number found dead in cars or 
pens at abattoirs and tanked. 
The meat-inspection tag or brand was affixed to 14,919,664 
quarter and 217,920 pieces of beef, 5,522,142 carcasses of sheep, 
225,348 carcasses of calves, 932,878 carcasses of hogs and 551,- 
331 sacks of pork. 
The number of packages stamped during the year com¬ 
prised 4,840,834 of beef products, 9417 of mutton, 12,545,965 
of hog products and 763 of horseflesh. Included in the pack¬ 
ages of hog products were 393,838 packages containing meat 
that had been microscopically examined in addition to the reg¬ 
ular inspection. There were 47,455 cars sealed which con¬ 
tained inspected meat for shipment to packing-houses and 
other places. 
Daring the year there were 42,237 certificates issued for meat 
products regularly inspected, exclusive of horseflesh. The 
exports thus certified consisted of 1,428,290 quarters, 45,789 
pieces and 837,634 packages of beef weighing 360,843,856 lbs.; 
9417 packages of mutton weighing 525,705 lbs., 199,505 car¬ 
casses and 880,324 packages of pork weighing 278,695,535 lbs. 
Fourteen certificates were issued for 763 packages of horseflesh 
weighing 347,048 lbs. The cost of this part of the work of the 
inspection division was $465,709 making an average of 0.88 
cent for each of the 53,223,176 ante-mortem inspections. In 
1893 the average cost of inspection was 4.75 cents and in 1894 
1.75 cents and in 1898 0.80 cent. 
The bureau microscopically inspected 2,227,740 carcasses 
of pork, of which 2,160,230 or 96 per cent, were free from all 
appearance of trichinae; 25,913, or 1.16 per cent., contained 
trichinae-like bodies or disintegrated trichinae, and 41,597 car¬ 
casses, or i>7 per cent, contained living trichinae. The num¬ 
ber of certificates issued for microscopically examined pork 
products was 22,708. The number of packages exported was 
393,626, weighing 108,928,195 lbs. Of this quantity 137 pack¬ 
ages weighing 70,046 lbs. went to countries not requiring a 
certificate of microscopic inspection. The cost of the micro¬ 
scopic inspection was $198,355, an average of 8.9 cents for each 
carcass examined and 0.182 cent for each pound exported. 
There was some increase in this cost over last year, owing to 
the necessity of increasing the force in order to maintain a 
more careful control of the stock of microscopic meats and of 
the cellars containing it, and to a more accurate system of 
